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extropic-engine on June 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Raspberry Pi Official Case

Actually, aerodynamics are really important for buildings, especially tall ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_engineering

(OK, you were probably being sarcastic! But wind engineering is cool!)

Stratoscope on June 17, 2015 [–]

The Citicorp building in New York City was a particularly scary case of wind engineering (or lack of):

http://www.damninteresting.com/a-potentially-disastrous-desi...

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